I have this essay to write and I have to ask people over forty what the world was like 30 years ago...

So, what was life like 30 years ago?

Any help would be much appreciated.:)

30 years ago(1974) I was 24 years old and had 2 young children. I have to say that I coud let my young 5 year old daughter roam the neighborhood without even thinking twice about her safety! (but I always knew where she was!):D I moved into my present neighborhood exactly 30 years ago and most of the people were my age, young families just getting started, but it sure was nice not having to worry about where my kids were and who they were associating with! Of course, the older that they got the more of an eagle eye I kept on them!:D Times were most assuredly better then IMO. I love the 70's! :happyface LOL Our house payments (brand new house) were only about 300.00 a month! My phone bill around 20.00 and our power bills were pretty cheap too until the Energy crisis which jacked up gasoline prices from around 30 cents a gallon to an unthinkable 50 cents! I remember thinking at the time that gasoline could not go any higher or we would sink into a deep depression!:lol:

I was a teenager, I remember wearing bell bottoms and hiphuggers. To me the world was begining to move faster. In my high school there were no computer classes, just typing. Country was in. Station wagons and RV's were the way to travel. Kids still went out and played, I didn't have no video games or computer games.

Here is a great site on the 70's -

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html

Times were more calmer back then. No stress (At least I didn't have any) I had a job and I paid rent for $220.00. The music I listened to was disco. I wore bell bottoms also and I wore Jean pantsuits. I had my hair in a shag. The quotes were "Keep on Trucking".....

Originally posted by Pitooey
Times were more calmer back then. No stress (At least I didn't have any) I had a job and I paid rent for $220.00. The music I listened to was disco. I wore bell bottoms also and I wore Jean pantsuits. I had my hair in a shag. The quotes were "Keep on Trucking".....



Memories memories............................:D
Love your avatar!Looooking Good!:wave:

Thanks guys.:wave:

It was GrOoVy! Put that down, your Teacher will understand if she lived Then. ;)

30 yearz ago i wuz 72!!!11:eek: :D i remeber i listned 2 da surpremez a lot & i also lykd watchin da brady bucnh. omg dat suckd so0o0o0o0ok;pk'phbljg much wen it got canceeled :mad: but i learnmed 2 live w/ it :D

Originally posted by safety pin
30 yearz ago i wuz 72!!!11:eek: :D i remeber i listned 2 da surpremez a lot & i also lykd watchin da brady bucnh. omg dat suckd so0o0o0o0ok;pk'phbljg much wen it got canceeled :mad: but i learnmed 2 live w/ it :D thank god For Tv land huh?! :lol:

Wow reading this thread really brought back some memories about how much better life was back then. Never thought I would use that phrase.

Let me see I was only 6 going on 7, but I remember that Nixon was in the middle of Watergate, and I was so confused as to what it was. Since there was no cable television all the daytime shows were pre-empted to show the Watergate hearings. I remember watching Happy Days and Welcome Back Kotter, and being excited about summers end so I could see what the new Saturday morning cartoons were going to be. I remember asking for my seven cents for milk at school, and school lunch only cost like 40 or 45 cents. We had recess, I wasn't afraid of my classmate or teacher being a molester, the crossing guard always watched out for us getting home and I wasn't afraid that someone would snatch me up at six years old while I walked home from school.

In the words of Cher: "......if I could turn back time.":wave:

Originally posted by Jrnygrl
Wow reading this thread really brought back some memories about how much better life was back then. Never thought I would use that phrase.

Let me see I was only 6 going on 7, but I remember that Nixon was in the middle of Watergate, and I was so confused as to what it was. Since there was no cable television all the daytime shows were pre-empted to show the Watergate hearings. I remember watching Happy Days and Welcome Back Kotter, and being excited about summers end so I could see what the new Saturday morning cartoons were going to be. I remember asking for my seven cents for milk at school, and school lunch only cost like 40 or 45 cents. We had recess, I wasn't afraid of my classmate or teacher being a molester, the crossing guard always watched out for us getting home and I wasn't afraid that someone would snatch me up at six years old while I walked home from school.

In the words of Cher: "......if I could turn back time.":wave:
Yeah, the good old days!:D

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Yeah, the good old days!:D

:nod: :nod: :nod: peacesign:

I was in the 7th grade. First year of Junior High School.
The typical price for candy (like M & M's, Hershey bar or Reese's) was 15 cents. I forgot the exact price of gasoline- I believe about 40 cents/gallon. Practically everything was very inexpensive, except for some electronic items like TVs. A 19-inch set cost at least $350. A basic calculator was also more expensive than today.

A lot less traffic. Some streets near where I live either didn't exist yet, or dead-ended. I kept up with the top 40. Usually had on 93 KHJ AM. And TV shows- mainly Happy Days, All In The Family and reruns of shows like Bewitched, Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy, Brady Bunch, etc.

Funny to look back and remember that there was talk of the U.S. going "all metric" by 1980! The government (or whoever) failed to realize that most people did not want to change the system of weights and measurements.

And if someone told me that in about 25 years we would be communicating with each other world-wide through the internet, I would have said, "What in the world are you talking about?"

Cadillacs looked like Cadillacs. (And cost about $9,000.) There was that "sign-off" of TV stations at 3:00 or 4:00 AM. No cable, of course. Plenty of LPs (record albums), costing about $3.98.

Overall, I liked the time period. There were some things I didn't like (hippies, there seemed to be more smog around than today, the decaying of the education system which was just beginning, the increase in crime nationwide). Still, not a bad time to be around.